Instead, the Government announced that Nick Bitel, the London Marathon chief executive and a member of the Sport England board since 2010, had been appointed to the role, with the key task of increasing grassroots sports participation to cement the country's Olympic legacy.
When you make a claim for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will first check that the basic entitlement conditions (as set by the DWP) are met. The PIP entitlement conditions stipulate that you must be aged between 16 and 64 and have had difficulties with 'activities of daily living' and/or mobility for three months and expect them to last for at least 9 months. If you meet these criteria a PIP assessment will take place.
Ministers are braced for fresh protests over their welfare shake up when controversial changes to the main disability benefit begin to take effect. George Osborne has agreed a "pilot" information exchange scheme with France, Germany, Italy and Spain to catch tax evaders. Photo: AFP By Patrick Hennessy
The timetable for moving working age disability living allowance (DLA) claimants onto personal independence payment (PIP) has been put back by two years, until after the next election, for people with indefinite or lifetime awards of DLA.
For a growing list of links to media coverage, blog posts etc, see our dedicated PIP page
A councillor who quit after saying disabled children should be "put down", is standing for re-election.
